AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 41-73-29, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972, TO AUTHORIZE THE MISSISSIPPI HOSPITAL EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES AUTHORITY TO INVEST SURPLUS FUNDS IN ANY INVESTMENT AUTHORIZED FOR CERTAIN COMMUNITY HOSPITALS PURSUANT TO SECTION 41-73-29, MISSISSIPPI CODE OF 1972; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.

(1) To invest any funds not needed for immediate disbursement, including any funds held in reserve, in one or more of the following:

(a) Obligations of any municipality or the state or the United States of America;

(b) Obligations the principal and interest of which are guaranteed by the state or the United States of America;

(c) Obligations of any corporation wholly owned by the United States of America;

(d) Obligations of any corporation sponsored by the United States of America which are or may become eligible as collateral for advances to member banks as determined by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System;

(e) Certificates or any other evidence of ownership interest in obligations of or obligations unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of America or in specified portions thereof, which may consist of the principal thereof or the interest thereon;

(f) Certificates of deposit or time deposits of qualified depositories of the state as approved by the State Depository Commission, secured in such manner, if any, as the authority shall determine;

(g) Contracts for the purchase and sale of obligations of the type specified in items (a) through (e) above;

(i) Money market funds, the assets of which are required to be invested in obligations specified in items (a) through (f) above;

(j) Any investments authorized for the investment of funds of certain hospitals pursuant to Section 27-105-365.

(2) To fix, revise from time to time, charge and collect fees and other charges, as the authority determines to be reasonable, in connection with its loans, leases, sales, advances, insurance, commitments and servicing;

(3) To cooperate with and exchange services, personnel and information with any federal, state or local governmental agency;

(4) To sell, at public or private sale, with or without public bidding, any loan or other obligation held by the authority;

(5) To adopt rules and regulations which enhance the probability that hospital institutions will use for such purposes all bond proceeds which are available to finance hospital equipment and hospital facilities; and

(6) To do any act necessary or convenient to the exercise of the powers granted by this chapter or reasonably implied from it.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.